Status of ios-deploy with Xcode 11

[fxcoudert]

Hi, I'm a Homebrew maintainer, and we're trying to determine how to get ios-deploy to build again with Xcode 11. Right now, I've tried several things:

• latest stable release (1.9.4) does not build because of npm install of ios-deploy fails with "ld: framework not found MobileDevice" on macOS Catalina #415 (ld: framework not found MobileDevice )
• latest beta release (1.10.0-beta.3) does not build because:

    /bin/sh -c /Users/fx/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/ios-deploy-dgqwmloyxgwfclggfjcxuaaerflb/Build/Intermediates.noindex/ios-deploy.build/Release/ios-deploy-tests.build/Script-3BF32EF31F5A215300E1699B.sh
rsync: delete_file: rmdir "/tmp/ios-deploy-20191123-72714-yf2pjl/ios-deploy-1.10.0-beta.3/_Frameworks/MobileDevice.framework" failed: Directory not empty (66)
rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at /BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/rsync/rsync-54/rsync/main.c(996) [sender=2.6.9]
Command PhaseScriptExecution failed with a nonzero exit code


Test session results, code coverage, and logs:
	/Users/fx/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/ios-deploy-dgqwmloyxgwfclggfjcxuaaerflb/Logs/Test/Test-ios-deploy-tests-2019.11.23_14-03-31-+0100.xcresult

Testing failed:
	Command PhaseScriptExecution failed with a nonzero exit code
	Testing cancelled because the build failed.

** TEST FAILED **


The following build commands failed:
	PhaseScriptExecution Run\ Script /Users/fx/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/ios-deploy-dgqwmloyxgwfclggfjcxuaaerflb/Build/Intermediates.noindex/ios-deploy.build/Release/ios-deploy-tests.build/Script-3BF32EF31F5A215300E1699B.sh
(1 failure)

• Current master branch does not build, same error as 1.10.0-beta.3.

Advice is welcome. If ios-deploy is not going to build with Xcode 11 in a reasonable time frame, we may have to remove it from Homebrew.

[l3ender]

Did you try the steps described at #387 (comment):

...after you have the build fail initially on the 1.9.x versions of ios-deploy you may not get it to actually work until you clear out the old partial/failed build like so:

\rm -fr ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/ios-deploy-*

After I did that, and an npm -g uninstall ios-deploy I was able to install it with npm -g install ios-deploy@beta and the compile worked

The key is to clear any existing derived data folder and then reinstall using beta version. I just did this on Catalina 10.15.1 with Xcode 11.2.1 and it worked.

[fxcoudert]

• Homebrew is building in a scratch directory every time (enforced by a sandbox), so there are no leftover files from previous runs anywhere. We do see the errors reported nonetheless.
• If a step is part of the compilation, shouldn't it be included in the build script?

[fxcoudert]

@gabebear @shazron I need guidance here, otherwise will recommend removal from Homebrew (and it seems, from comments around, that a lot of users rely on Homebrew as a distribution method for ios-deploy). Thanks!

[Ukalnins]

The #387 fixed it for the ios-deploy target, but not for the ios-deploy-tests target.

[Ukalnins]

@fxcoudert I submitted a PR for the fix. You could verify that it also fixes it for you :-)

[gabebear]

I packaged up the most recent changes in a new beta4 release which I'm planning on releasing shortly(early this week) once I do some basic testing.

beta4 fixes the issue with compiling in Xcode11 you were seeing and getting 1.10.0 out as stable should alleviate some confusion.

[gabebear]

I've cut 1.10.0 as the stable release(on npmjs.org and github).

@fxcoudert What is the process for updating the brew forumlua? https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/ios-deploy

[gabebear]

I believe Homebrew/homebrew-core#47661 will update Homebrew